RAIPUR: New Zealand left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner feels getting extra alternatives to bat over the previous 12 months has led to an enchancment in his energy recreation and helped him chip in with helpful knocks.
Santner smashed his third ODI fifty on Wednesday whereas supporting a rampaging Michael Bracewell in a whirlwind 162-run stand for the seventh wicket towards India, taking New Zealand very near the ending line in Hyderabad.
Batting at quantity eight, his recreation plan is straightforward – to hit sixes from ball one – and that was amply clear in the best way he batted within the centre nets of Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium right here on Friday.
Like the remainder of the New Zealand batters, he principally confronted the spinners and tried to hit most balls out of the park.
“Being an all-rounder you need to chip in both the departments. In the last year or so, getting more opportunities to bat has helped. It can be quite challenging at times if you are at the bottom and you have three or four overs left,” he mentioned forward of the second ODI.
“The nature of batting at 7 and 8 is that you have to go hard from ball one and hit. You train for your role and that is what I do in the nets and try to hit some sixes. When you have more time to bat like the other night you get into your innings a bit more.
“Sometime you’ll include 15 overs left and typically with two overs left. You have to have the ability to do each.”
Santner also gave a fitness update on leg-spinner Ish Sodhi who had a bowl in the nets. With Santner, Sodhi and off-spinner Bracewell in the squad, New Zealand have all bases “lined”.
India managed to score 349 in the first ODI but Santner feels the spinners bowled alright and it was Shubman Gill who took the game away from there.
“The means Gill used his crease ahead and again it’s fairly difficult as a spin bowler,” he mentioned.
Santner smashed his third ODI fifty on Wednesday whereas supporting a rampaging Michael Bracewell in a whirlwind 162-run stand for the seventh wicket towards India, taking New Zealand very near the ending line in Hyderabad.
Batting at quantity eight, his recreation plan is straightforward – to hit sixes from ball one – and that was amply clear in the best way he batted within the centre nets of Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium right here on Friday.
Like the remainder of the New Zealand batters, he principally confronted the spinners and tried to hit most balls out of the park.
“Being an all-rounder you need to chip in both the departments. In the last year or so, getting more opportunities to bat has helped. It can be quite challenging at times if you are at the bottom and you have three or four overs left,” he mentioned forward of the second ODI.
“The nature of batting at 7 and 8 is that you have to go hard from ball one and hit. You train for your role and that is what I do in the nets and try to hit some sixes. When you have more time to bat like the other night you get into your innings a bit more.
“Sometime you’ll include 15 overs left and typically with two overs left. You have to have the ability to do each.”
Santner also gave a fitness update on leg-spinner Ish Sodhi who had a bowl in the nets. With Santner, Sodhi and off-spinner Bracewell in the squad, New Zealand have all bases “lined”.
India managed to score 349 in the first ODI but Santner feels the spinners bowled alright and it was Shubman Gill who took the game away from there.
“The means Gill used his crease ahead and again it’s fairly difficult as a spin bowler,” he mentioned.